Max Beerbohm Quotes
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In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.
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TweetDeck is a very interesting client, because it presents a view that no other client in the world presents, which is this multicolumn, massive amounts of information in one pane. And people really, really enjoy that.
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A common mistake people make regarding dining rooms is to buy a matching set of table and chairs, which can be monotonous. I like to mix guest chairs in one style and head chairs in another for a more interesting, dynamic look.
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Walking down the street in any town or city in the world and having people look at you and start talking to you, convinced that they know you as well or better than they do members of their own family, that's just an odd phenomenon. But I mean, I wouldn't say it was a bad thing. It's an interesting thing.
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I like to have interesting things to write about. And when one says something is 'interesting,' one almost always means 'bad.'
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For success of any mission, it is necessary to have creative leadership. Creative leadership is vital for government, non-governmental organisations as well as for industries.
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Surreal can be exciting and good, and it can be like living inside an alien landscape, and it can be completely interesting, or you can be alienated from your own life - inside your own life, it doesn't feel familiar any more.
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No one succeeds without effort... Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.
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What I find so interesting about people is the choices they make, and how that effects their behavior, their sense of self and their relationships.
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I don't talk about success. I don't know what it is. Wait until I'm dead.
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Go West, young man.
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There are a lot of actors who will sit here and talk to you about characters - 'He does this, and she's a really interesting character because she does this.' I'm not like that at all. I'm not an actory actor.
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When I did 'Boyz N The Hood', I never thought how we grew up in South Central was interesting enough for a movie.
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Rap culture is interesting and different and has purpose but it has a non-romantic view of life and of social feelings. There may be a void in that.
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Our dream as actors is to tell interesting stories about interesting people.
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I purposefully try to make films in that grey area, where things are morally ambiguous. It's like life: good people do horrible things, and bad people do good things, and there's beauty in horror and horror in beauty.
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Scandinavian crime fiction has become a great success all across the world and rightfully so. Sjowall and Wahloo ushered in a whole generation of Swedish crime writers, many of whom are now available in English.
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My childhood and adolescence were filled with visiting scientists from both India and abroad, many of whom would stay with us. A life of science struck me as being both interesting and particularly international in its character.
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Bahrainis are better off than many other Arabs. We have a welfare state, everybody gets a salary whether they have a job or not. Electricity and food are subsidized; school and healthcare are free. And we don't differentiate between Bahrainis and foreigners. We are very proud of that.
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I'm never going to listen to someone trash my wife.
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Look at the real prodigies, and I look like nothing compared to them.
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History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions.
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I drive a Lincoln Town Car.
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There is much to be said for failure. It is much more interesting than success.
